I am about (a) terrorist reading a top-secret report. |
I don't [have a problem with the resolution's language] because I think that we are the last nation, whether we like it or not, that has the capability to deal with some of these problems that are regional as well as global. I think we have to be engaged in it. |
I think our safeguards are in place and are working, |
I've got to tell you, it was a broken system, ... It was one of the things I found most stunning when I got here. |
if the president determines that such operations are vital to the protection of the United States or its citizens from terrorist attack. |
If you see an up-tic of electronic activity in a certain area, ... you might expect that something is happening. It might be a nuclear test, it might be conversations on cell phones, it might be people warming airplane engines, it might be people getting ready to test rockets. |
In other words, it has increased since then. |
In the intelligence community, everyone does his job and you don't share the information unless there is a need to know. This could be a case where the right compartments didn't talk to each other. |
Intelligence-related issues have become the fodder of partisan food fights and turf power skirmishes, ... All the while, the demand for our services and products against a ruthless and unconventional enemy has expended geometrically, and we are expected to deliver instantly. |
Intelligence-related issues have become the fodder of partisan food fights and turf power skirmishes. All the while, the demand for our services and products against a ruthless and unconventional enemy has expanded geometrically, and we are expected to deliver instantly, |
It would be a huge embarrassment for us not to discuss the Kosovo situation. |
may be only a matter of time. |
My understanding is that the last, absolute inventory that was taken -- that surely established where these hard drives were -- was part of the Y2K survey, which would be at the beginning of the year. |
No agency has greater skill and experience in this difficult, complex, and utterly vital discipline of intelligence, |
no reason now, nor do we foresee any in the normal course of events in the future, why Newt Gingrich would be ineligible to serve as Speaker. |